The Dangers of Excessive Exercising

 

People who are workout freaks and exercise for more than 2+ hours are in reality destroying their bodies instead of bulking them. All of us wish to have an amazing and healthy body. But, often we are so indulged in doing so that we forget that our workout craze isn’t keeping us healthy.

 As we all know that the excess of everything is bad and harmful, same goes for exercise; when you work out every day on heavy machinery like cable crossover machine with lat pulldown you are not giving your body the time to heal the small damages and the stress that happens during the sessions like tearing of small muscles. Your body starts to stay permanently tired because it is constantly being damaged and have no time to heal itself. In return for your excessive exercises, your body starts to give you some symptoms. Some of those symptoms we are going to discuss here so that you will know when to stop overdosing your body with exercises.

 5 Side Effects of Over Exercising:

1.    Mentally Weak: exercising daily with heavyweights and difficult machinery can give you your dream body but at the terrible price of your mental health. Some websites like Fit For Gym told us that there is an ‘overtraining syndrome’ which triggers the same chemical reactions in the brain that are triggered during the clinical depression. Both these things make the person suffer from insomnia, irritability, fatigue and low self-motivation. Insomnia is when your mind is overloaded with stressed thoughts and leads you to sleepless nights. Fatigue is caused when you feel physical or mental dizziness without any real reason it happens when you have over trained excessively. Both of these are very dangerous.

2.    A Distorting Immune System: our immune system depends on a hormone i.e. the cortisol. This hormone is emitted during physical stress by the adrenal gland, it increases the production of glucose, breaks down protein in the muscles and is good if stays in balance. But, when we over train our cortisol level goes up because of the work stress (which your body is supposed to fight). However, because your body is unable to recover from doing the intense pieces of training; your immune system has to bear its price. It is also related to the change of your urine color to a red or darker shade, it happens when the tissues of your muscle leak some sort of substance into your blood, this can also lead to kidney issues. 

3.    Pains and Aches: initially when you start to work out, you feel pain in your muscles because they are stretched the first time like this but when you work out nonstop for 7.5 hours a week; your muscles and joints start to give in, resulting in constant pain and soreness. Excessive workout can lead to numerous pains like back pain, shoulder pain, calf pain, headache, etc. these pains don’t develop in a day or two rather when your body is overly worked out. It can also cause our bones to become extremely weak as the bones start to lose their density and can lead to arthritis and osteoporosis. You can’t use your body without a break; your body needs time to restore its energy and to heal itself.

4.    Disrupted and Unsettled Heartbeats: people who engage in exercise more than 6 times a week can develop heart problems when they reach their 50s. When we are working- out; all we can think is that exercise is good for us and can never harm us, but we are wrong. One more disadvantage of over-exercising is that it can cause permanent damage to the structure of our heart which many doctors describe as ‘cardio toxic. Because of the stress, your heart has to work a lot harder and gets old before its supposed time, an easy way to determine whether you are excessively stressing your heart is to measure your heartbeats if the heartbeat is 50- 65 per minute you need to give it a break.

5.    Less Efficient Performance: performance covers everything, from daily getting out of bed to going back to sleep and everything in between. If you always feel tired and sloppy even after working out on heavy machines like cable crossover machine with lat pulldown; you should realize that working out is making you ill instead of healthy. It is your body’s way to tell you that it needs rest and you should at least give it a week to heal all the internal damages caused by extreme workouts.